It'd be nice if the smaller races (i.e. Furrikin, Faeling) could have specialised, smaller mounts. It'd be amusing to see a faeling riding on a pigwidgeon's shoulders, or something.

there should be three classes of size- large average and small,
large-igasho krokani orclach dracnari tae'dae taurian
medium- elfen merian viscanti aslaran human loboshigaru lucidian mugwump
small- dwarf faeling furrikin trill

and they'd each need to ride a mount their size

i agree with that. for example, let's use a war horse as an example.


Medium= a Huge clydesdale
Small= a Worg ( Huge Wolf)
Large= An Elephant


I also think that each city stable should have 1 of each kind of mount. And, i think each mount should have a special quality. For example, the mule class are tough, stubborn and strong. Thus, they carry alot of weight and can be equipped with saddlebags (backpacks for mounts). Ponies have more energy and are very cute, thus, they help when using the influence skill by adding in their cute charm. Light horses should be able to mov emore rooms before the messege slow down messege appears due to their agility and speed. War horses should ahve attacks they can do to their opponents. Etc.

Wargs are from LotR.

Nah, Worgs are from D&D as well. Just a riding wolf.

...no, they're from LotR. LotR came first. They were riding wolf/things there.

Furrikin should only be allowed to ride mutated giant gerbils. And yes there would be a special Iron Wheel skill included in the purchase.

Actually they came from Nordic and Germanic mythology. I am pretty certain that came before LotR.

Worg is a derivation of the original Warg-Wolf, which later became Werg and Wero. The Norse version was actually Varg which means murderer or predator, or Vargulf which means a large wolf that kills an entire flock but eats little of it.

Tolkien took the old english word Warg by itself and used it in his novels.

exactly. A warg, if you really look at it, is just a dire wolf with alot of intelligence. And greg is right,

Well, they still came in LOTR before D&D.

I have now identifed a topic hijack!

Anyways, yeah needs to be a lot more mounts, wild mounts and other mountable things and people for Riding.

Viscanti.... they are tainted version of the other races. Which means they are all different sizes. You can't just classify them as "medium"

I thought Were was Man in some language or other. I never heard it descending from Warg to mean "predator". How would predator wolf even make sense?

Were means man? Hm, I know lycanthrope is like...lycos thropos (or something), Greek - wolf man. I thought were was just..."changed" or "half". To mark it as different from a regular wolf, so to speak.

well, for the mos tpart, viscanti have the size of 12, i think, dunno for sure. Therefore....uh...yeah

"Were" is the term used in reference to Werewolf. Which is believed to be the latin derivative of the German words; Wehr, Wehren. The Prussian word; Wir. The Old English words; Wir and Weri.. all meaning in thier own way Man

The Greeks used Lycanthrope. Which came from Zeus disguising Himself as a traveller and travelling to the court of King Lycaon. The King recognised Zeus, tried to get him to eat human flesh. Zeus was angered and condemned the palace and cursed Lycaon to live his days as a wolf.

So now we get Lycanthrope which comes from Lykos - wolf and Anthropos - man

"Wero" was a derivative of Warg. The Norse used a V instead of a W and it became Varg. All wolves might be predators, but the distinction here was this particular wolf was larger, would kill an entire flock of sheep but only eat a couple of them. It was not a regular wolf.

So there is no reason Wargs couldn't be in Lusternia.

some know-it-all will give us a reason. But in all actuality, why not use it? i mean, it's a fantasy world. If you think about it, dragons came first in the tolkien series, then D&D, but hey, everything has roots in the mythos o past civilizations.

Which is strange, because the Viscanti description in the help files make it say they are tainted version of ALL mortal beings.

giant faelings perhaps?